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1 trivia quiz  Ben and Stephen and Nick coolicon
A quiz on some of my favorite modern British authors. Nothing too high-brow here - what these men have in common is readability and wit.
Average 10Q
1050 plays
Aug 24 05
agony editor
2 trivia quiz  London In Literature coolicon
Naturally enough, a lot of English literature is concerned with the capital, and many authors are intimately associated with the city. Here is a quiz on London in literature from the fourteenth to the twentieth centuries.
Difficult 15Q
1359 plays
Nov 20 02
TabbyTom editor
3 trivia quiz  Scottish Literature coolicon
Robert Burns is possibly the most famous Scottish writer but there are plenty of others, see how well you know them.
Tough 15Q
405 plays
Dec 12 03
alan03
4 trivia quiz  Writers From Wales icon
Wales is a small country which has produced its share of well-known writers, poets and playwrights. Your challenge is to identify them from my clues.
Average 10Q
321 plays
Apr 18 06
bracklaman gold
5 trivia quiz  Yup, English and Irish Lit icon
Here are some questions on English and Irish writers, their works, etc., all trivialized for your safety and enjoyment. Enjoy!
Tough 15Q
1170 plays
Nov 18 01
Lofgeornost
6 trivia quiz  Post-War British Literature icon
After Second World War there were important changes in British Literature. There were the Angry Young Men. There were the voices from the ex-Empire.See for yourself what you still remember of those recent 'past times'.
Tough 10Q
684 plays
Nov 08 01
flem-ish
7 trivia quiz  19th Century British Lit
Your high school teacher would be so proud... or not!
Very Difficult 20Q
1338 plays
Mar 19 01
sampras

Some sample questions from this category:

* The Alicia Silverstone movie 'Clueless' was based on which Jane Austen novel?
* In which Dicken's novel about the civil court system of Victorian England was the villain disposed of by 'spontaneous combustion'?
* In which whiny poem does Coleridge lament his injured foot, and the fact that it keeps him from accompanying his friends?
* The sister of this poet is rumored by some, almost certainly falsely, to have had incestuous desires toward her brother.
* Anthony Trollope's 'Parliamentary' novels center on which character?
* The plot of George Eliot's 'Adam Bede' revolves around....?
* Which calamitous European event is the backdrop for Thackeray's 'Henry Esmond'?
* This performer of Shakespearean plays brought a broader, more 'Romantic' style to the portrayal of the Bard's characters.
* This Victorian author was wildly popular during his lifetime, but was dismissed as a mere 'journeyman' when his diaries were posthumously published, revealing he had a regular, daily writing 'schedule.'
* In whose works were these important {'localities':Fernhill;Laugharne;Rhosili;Cwmdonkin} {Park;Swansea} Bay ?
* Where did Dylan Thomas have his 'Boathouse'?
* Who was the woman author of such successful novels as 'Memento Mori' {(1959);'The} Ballad of Peckham Rye' {(1960);} 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie' {(1961);} 'The Girls of Slender Means' (1963)?
* Which of these Wilsons was the 24-year-old author of a successful analysis of the post-existentialist 'Outsider' in literature?
* Which of these authors might with some reason be called the 'voice of London's suburbia'?
* Who wrote the successful play, 'Educating Rita' , about a low-brow woman who takes an interest in poetry and subsequently gets involved in an affair with a deteriorating alcohol-addicted professor of literature ?
* Who reigned over post-war British poetry at Faber and Faber ,Russell Square, while Dylan Thomas reigned over the pubs around Charlotte Street till he died in 1953?
* Who wrote an eleven-volume sequence of novels in which we follow Lewis Eliot from lower middle class Leicester to Cambridge, then London and finally 'the Corridors of Power'?
* Which of these Theatre Companies first had Aldwych, then the Barbican as its homebase?
* In 1897 this writer was released from {prison;} he moved to France, wrote a ballad about his prison experience, and changed his name to Sebastian Melmoth. By what name is he better known?
* This novel begins and ends at the Pensione Bertolini, where Lucy Honeychurch and George Emerson first meet and finally honeymoon, but only after various tea parties, tennis, and a broken engagement back in England. What is the novel's title?

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